The Oxford Book of Modern Science WritingRichard Dawkins Oxford University Press, 13 de mar. de 2008 - 439 páginas Selected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a celebration of the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience - revealing that many of the best scientists have displayed as much imagination and skill with the pen as they have in the laboratory. This is a rich and vibrant collection that captures the poetry and excitement of communicating scientific understanding and scientific effort from 1900 to the present day. Professor Dawkins has included writing from a diverse range of scientists, some of whom need no introduction, and some of whose works have become modern classics, while others may be less familiar - but all convey the passion of great scientists writing about their science. |
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... happen, and if the universe goes on for long enough, every conceivable accident is likely to happen in time. It was, I think, Huxley who said that six monkeys, set to strum unintelligently on typewriters for millions of millions of ...
... happen, and if the universe goes on for long enough, every conceivable accident is likely to happen in time. It was, I think, Huxley who said that six monkeys, set to strum unintelligently on typewriters for millions of millions of ...
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... happens in the Sun and other stars like it). It is because gravity is so weak that a typical star like the Sun is so massive. In any lesser aggregate, gravity could not compete with the pressure, nor squeeze the material hot and dense ...
... happens in the Sun and other stars like it). It is because gravity is so weak that a typical star like the Sun is so massive. In any lesser aggregate, gravity could not compete with the pressure, nor squeeze the material hot and dense ...
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... happen if it weren't quite so weak? Imagine, for instance, a universe where gravity was 'only' 1030 rather than 1036 feebler than electric forces. Atoms and molecules would behave just as in our actual universe, but objects would not ...
... happen if it weren't quite so weak? Imagine, for instance, a universe where gravity was 'only' 1030 rather than 1036 feebler than electric forces. Atoms and molecules would behave just as in our actual universe, but objects would not ...
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... happens') and lyrical prose poetry extolling the wonders of science and the scientific world view. His literary flair is most hauntingly demonstrated in The Creation (second edition Creation Revisited): When we have dealt with the ...
... happens') and lyrical prose poetry extolling the wonders of science and the scientific world view. His literary flair is most hauntingly demonstrated in The Creation (second edition Creation Revisited): When we have dealt with the ...
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... happens by chance to wander into an arrangement that corresponds to a new molecule, that transient arrangement may suddenly be frozen into permanence as the energy released leaps away. Chemical reactions are transformations by ...
... happens by chance to wander into an arrangement that corresponds to a new molecule, that transient arrangement may suddenly be frozen into permanence as the energy released leaps away. Chemical reactions are transformations by ...
Conteúdo
PART II WHO SCIENTISTS ARE | 149 |
PART III WHAT SCIENTISTS THINK | 245 |
PART IV WHAT SCIENTISTS DELIGHT IN | 347 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 397 |
INDEX | 401 |
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